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danielscrubs··on Three-Minute Take-Home Test May Identify Symptoms Linked to Alzheimer's Disease
Does it back up that it increases deep sleep? Just see word salads on the web page and: ”dont ask how it sounds, if it where a pill you wouldnt!”

Just red flags everywhere.

danielscrubs··on Notion API importer, with Databases to Bases conversion bounty
I don’t get the llm shilling. If you think you can earn 50k with some prompts, then earn it. Why _instead_ shill for llms? Feels like stock traders having courses for how YOU could earn big bucks. They themselves have photos taken with one day rented Ferraris…

We all lean on LLMs in one way or another, but HN is becoming infested with wishful prompt engineers. Show, dont tell. Compete on the market instead of yet another PoC.

danielscrubs··on Will AI be the basis of many future industrial fortunes, or a net loser?
Can you get consistency in the design? I know this was a problem 3 years ago…
danielscrubs··on AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts
Might be a blessing in disguise, forcing EU members to learn languages, whilst non EU members watch one more hour of TV with that time given…

Or they just become more inefficient… either way, it’s going to be fun to see the results.

danielscrubs··on Chicago has the most lead pipes in the nation
Never been to Asia? Plenty of people prefer their water warm.
danielscrubs··on Stone Age settlement found under the sea in Denmark
”Unfortunately I don't expect there is any particularly reusable solution to be uncovered.” Scientist might write that in a PR piece or a grant proposal but I can guarantee you that no one thinks that.
danielscrubs··on Income Equality in Nordic Countries: Myths, Facts, and Lessons
From my experience working culture is just strongly aligned with incentives. Put a Norwegian in Silicon Valley and suddenly he gets equity, his manager is a former developer (not an finance/hr person), his visa is dependent on work, his salary is top 5% and he is well respected.

Seen plenty of Americans that got comfy in the nordics (also efficient but 40 hours max).

Also seen other countries politicians change rules that directly affected how hard people work. It’s not rocket science and programming is one of the most fun jobs to be doing so plenty would jump at the opportunity.

Instead I see people go home and try to code something at home to increase their salaries.

danielscrubs··on AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore
Can you explain why it is a masterpiece? Im just curious.
danielscrubs··on Google is killing first and second gen Nest Thermostats
I question how good the engineers are if it costs so much to keep those services running.

I guess the only way out is to vote with your wallet.

YouTube and Gmail are the only Google services left in my life.

danielscrubs··on Websites and web developers mostly don't care about client-side problems
Aka, make the web worse for everyone. Thanks for playing.
danielscrubs··on Google admits anti-competitive conduct involving Google Search in Australia
I miss the days of personal blogs made by professionals. They didn’t really want to impress the general public but instead their peers. Such a great time. No long prologues, no dumbing down, no politics, just pure facts and opinions about their own field.
danielscrubs··on GPT-5
Synthetic data. Get used to it, it’s in vogue.
danielscrubs··on Apple lacks strategic vision
Buying competency and hoping for the best sounds exactly what an economist would do.

They will probably leave as soon as their manager becomes just the run of the mill babysitter manager with charisma.

danielscrubs··on OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery
That is not the spirit nor the letter though.
danielscrubs··on Stargate Norway
”While in Norway, OpenAI will also engage with government officials to explore opportunities for collaboration, including boosting AI adoption and helping to deliver on Norway’s sovereign AI goals for the benefit of its people.”

Aka, Snowden thought us nothing.

Norwegians beware of ChatGPT used as a weapon to move oil money from the people to the ”future of business ”.

danielscrubs··on You know what: Microsoft became miserably incompetent in IT
With enough eyeballs all bugs are shallow.

What would be the opposite?

With enough blindfolds all bugs are unimportant?

danielscrubs··on EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google
Any EU friends can tell me which politicians are behind this?
danielscrubs··on It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA
Google Maps cant even preserve state in their iOS app.

They are either the worst developers in the world or it is not simple.

I don’t rule any of the two possibilities out.

Some things you get for free with the correct architecture. For whatever reason, SPA does not have a great track record with their users.

danielscrubs··on It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA
Pjax was the goat.
danielscrubs··on It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA
I 100% would like to see an MPA Google Maps.

Being able to come back to a webpage with previous directions? I think it would be glorious.

danielscrubs··on Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024)
People don’t really believe me when I say I went to the U.S. and had to sing the national anthem every day in class.

There’s no other place that protects its companies so fiercely, meritocracy be damned.

Great for investors though!

danielscrubs··on Countries across the world see food price shocks from climate extremes
If you ask a metrologist you will get this answer. But from what I’ve heard from eu farmers are: Russian fertilisers and gas dependence have caused quite a blow to the market, it will need time to normalise.

Not trying to downplay extreme weather though!

danielscrubs··on YouTube No Translation
But in this hyperpersonalisation era, we somehow give them a free pass when their A/B testing should catch these exact things.

Taking a vacation abroad cant be a new concept for them.

danielscrubs··on YouTube No Translation
A generic algorithm is leaving money on the table if that’s the case.
danielscrubs··on YouTube No Translation
Spent a week in Africa, now YT swears that I know Arabic.

I haven’t watched a single Arabic video.

Any Googlers here that can explain how Google can be so bad at designing products?

danielscrubs··on Japanese grandparents create life-size Totoro with bus stop for grandkids (2020)
Luckily tourists are a political problem, which the corona restrictions clearly showed.
danielscrubs··on Let's Learn x86-64 Assembly (2020)
Ive heard this for thirty years and it is as wrong now as it was then.

Yes you need to be good at assembly (especially data oriented architecture), yes it takes forever, but that is no excuse to spew falsehoods.

danielscrubs··on Why I don't ride the AI Hype Train
It helps having China as a bogeyman, if WE don’t pirate then China will win the AI race, and we will all be slaves… if you have principles you are a communist…
danielscrubs··on Why is the Rust compiler so slow?
You’d be surprised. Here is the Pascal successor Oberons very short Ebnf. https://oberon07.com/o7EBNF.xhtml

Something to look into in retirement.

danielscrubs··on Getting by on the Generosity of Strangers in Japan
Im wondering if tourism isnt a net negative? The tourism industry thrives which means people move to that industry, then that industry becomes so big that politicians say the country can’t survive without it, then the culture vanishes . See the coffee shops in Shibuya with majority tourists, their manner is completely different.
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